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8:55 PM ET, January 1, 2014

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Press Gazette:
Defamation Act comes into force today with ‘serious harm’ now needed for claims to succeed  —  The long-awaited Defamation Act 2013 comes into force today bring sweeping changing to the law of libel.  —  The act introduces a “new serious harm threshold” designed to help people understand …
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
The Dish ends 2013 with $851k in subscription revenue, 34,000 subscribers  —  The Dish Subscription Surge  —  One last note before the New Year begins.  When I was asked a little less than a year ago what our ambition was for revenue in 2013, I grabbed a number out of the air.
Discussion: @mathewi and @jayrosen_nyu
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Al Jazeera America Will Be ‘Envy of the Industry,’ Chief Says  —  Deep pockets make fledgling cabler a journalistic unicorn amid cost-cutting elsewhere  —  Al Jazeera America president Kate O'Brian has told staffers that the fledgling cabler is on its way to being “the envy of the industry” as it heads into 2014 with ambitious plans.
Discussion: TVNewser
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Erik Wemple:
Are the U.S. media as transparent as the U.S. government?  —  Bob Schieffer of CBS News gave one of the great media quotes of 2013.  He was asked by Leonard Downie Jr., the former executive editor of The Post, about how the Obama administration ranked in terms of openness toward the media.
Ben Smith / Playboy:
Social media: journalism's most important ally for distribution  —  How Twitter and Facebook will save journalism (mostly)  —  On November 4, 2008 I woke up slightly hungover at six A.M. in a Hyatt hotel overlooking the Chicago River.  It was the morning of Election Day, and even at that small hour e-mails jammed my in-box.
Sam Marsden / Telegraph:
Increase in BBC middle-managers as director-general vows to cut executives  —  There was a 14 per cent rise in the number of the Corporation's staff at the level just below senior management over a three-year period  —  The number of the BBC's middle-managers has increased despite …
Gary Levin / USA Today:
Cable is holding its own, and then some  —  Viewers spent more time watching cable than broadcast in 2013, but the gains are uneven.  —  TV fans aren't ready to cut their cord to cable.  —  Viewers spent a record 17.2 hours per week watching ad-supported cable networks in 2013 …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
AOL Sells Winamp And Shoutcast Music Services To Online Radio Aggregator Radionomy  —  Some more detail on the fate of Winamp and Shoutcast, the legacy digital music services that owner AOL (which also owns TechCrunch) originally planned to shut down but then halted pending a sale.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
For newspaper stocks, 2013 was a surprisingly good year  —  Despite yet another year of falling revenues, publicly traded newspaper companies saw their share prices rise sharply during 2013.  —  Yes, the overall market was strong — with the S&P index up 29.5 percent and the Dow Jones up 26.5 percent.
Discussion: @mariannmartin
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Key metrics show Time.com lags behind competitors, despite significant traffic growth in 2013  —  Will Time.com be Able to Catch up to Rivals?  Ahead of redesign, a look at how the site stacks up By Lucia Moses  —  With its long-delayed redesign expected to go live in the next six weeks …
Discussion: @huffpostpartner
 
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Will DirecTV keep its Sunday Ticket football package or punt?
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Pirate Bay Uploads Surge 50% in a Year, Despite Anti-Piracy Efforts
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
UK entertainment spending rises with surge in film and music streaming
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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